Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: February 2012

14-Feb-2012

The OECD area unemployment rate, unchanged at 8.2% December 2011, continued to show the stability seen throughout 2011.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates (HURs), OECD - Updated: January 2012

17-Jan-2012

The rate has hovered at this level since January 2011. However, stability at the aggregate level masks different national situations.

Harmonised Unemployment Rates and Levels

17-Jan-2012

The OECD harmonised unemployment rates (seasonally adjusted) give the numbers of unemployed persons as a percentage of the civilian labour force. Civilian labour force being the sum of unemployed persons ...

Key short-term economic indicators

12-Jan-2012

Provides access to long time series of growth rates for a number of Key Economic Indicators (GDP, production, cyclical indicators, standardised unemployment rates, prices, financial indicators, trade...) collected within the Main Economic Indicators database.

Registered unemployment rates and levels for OECD countries and Major Non-Member Economies

12-Jan-2012

Unemployment statistics derived from administrative registers. The series are updated continuously.

Survey based unemployment rates and levels for OECD countries and major non-member economies

12-Jan-2012

Unemployment rates and levels derived from labour force surveys. The series are updated continuously.

Job vacancies for OECD countries

12-Jan-2012

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators  (updated continuously) - Data generally relate to the stock of unfilled job vacancies.

Hourly Earnings for OECD countries

12-Jan-2012

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Hourly earnings correspond to seasonally adjusted average total earnings in manufacturing and private sector paid per employed person per hour, including overtime pay and regularly recurring

Employment by industry for OECD countries and major non-member economies

12-Jan-2012

Source: OECD Main Economic Indicators (updated continuously) - Employment is presented in total and by broad industry and is derived from labour force sample surveys.

System of quarterly unit labour cost indexes, OECD - Updated: December 2011

21-Dec-2011

Unit labour costs (ULCs) in the OECD area fell 0.3% in the third quarter of 2011, according to early estimates.